On Sun Oct 14 2012 Leo wrote: > Yes, it is related. The way BBDB3 handles duplicates is pretty bad. Try > to create two records with the same name. It throws an error in emacs > -q.
See bbdb-allow-duplicates. I guess it is fair to say that this variable was introduced long ago not as a bug, but as a feature. Depending on circumstances, it could be more likely that duplicate entries inadvertently refer to the same person. Also, the docstring of this variable expresses the fact... > On 2012-10-13 19:57 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > > Can you please be more specific? Under what circumstances did BBDB > > what, which now it does not do anymore? > > Create a bbdb db with two duplicate records and each has an email. > > Try completing emails in gnus or whatever mailer. > > Type a substring that matches both emails and complete. Only one email > address is completed. The other is ignored. ...that so far in BBDB's history nobody considered the case of records with duplicate names important enough to extend the code of bbdb-complete-mail to handle such records properly. If this is urgent for you, you might want to look into this function yourself. Actually, I am not sure this requires a UID field. Instead, it may be sufficient that bbdb-complete-mail does not immediately exit one of its loops if it found one record matching a name. Instead it needs to continue looking for matching records. Note that BBDB's hash table associates elements in, say, the organization field with multiple records. In the same way it *can* associate a name with multiple records. Merely, details are not yet spelled out in the code. See the warning in bbdb-allow-duplicates. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
